Characteristics of Recent Prosthetic Materials
Congress Lecture
Prosthodontic Planning and Procedures
Hardware complications are unavoidable for anyone who is practicing implant dentistry. These complications can be mechanical, such as failure of prefabricated components, or technical, such as failure of a laboratory-fabricated suprastructure or its materials. This lecture presents the importance of keeping the causes of hardware complications in mind while planning the prosthesis design. Also, because complication rates are not the same for every treatment option and material, the clinician should select the abutment and overall materials according to the treatment indications, reserving ceramics for esthetically demanding cases. Finally, this lecture presents the potential limitations of third-party products.
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